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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/16/19
A museum’s 3,500-year-old disposable cup shows the desire to avoid dishwashing is ancient
One is a paper discard from the 1990s. Researchers believe the other, made from clay, may have held wine before it was thrown out after an ancient party on the island of Crete.
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10/27/19
A Brief History of the Fox
by Adele Brand
In a flash of geological time, we have rewritten the fox’s wildwood, in ways both graphic and subtle. We have added, taken away, replanted and concreted.
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